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                Society of Plastics Engineers

Southern California Section          

 

2008 “Wonders of Plastics” Essay Contest

For Southern California

 

Society of Plastics Engineers is proud to sponsor our fourteenth annual essay contest.

Open to all junior high and high school students within Southern California.

 

The 1st place winner will receive $500.00 honorarium and an additional $100.00 honorarium for their school from the Southern California Section of SPE. The 2nd place will receive $250.00 and 3rd place will $100.00 honorariums for student and $100.00 for their schools.

 

The 1st place winning essay will be published in The SPE Press, our Section’s monthly newsletter. The winning essay will also be forwarded to the Society’s headquarters to compete with winning essays from Sections around the world. The international prize consists of a $1,000.00 honorarium for the student and a $1,000.00 honorarium their school. The winning essay will be published in SPE’s official magazine, Plastics Engineering.

 

The Section level awards will be presented during SPE Education Night on March 20, 2008 at the Southern California Edison CTAC Center in Irwindale, CA.

 

Some suggested topics are:

    Plastics in the environment                                 Plastics usefulness in society                    

    Creative use of recycled plastics                       How plastics benefit humankind

    What plastics has done for me              Why the bad reputation of plastics is wrong   

    How plastics improve our lifestyle                    Advantages of plastics in food packaging

 

The essay must be sponsored by a teacher and must meet certain requirements.

For information including requirements and entry form contact:

Rakshit Amba rakshit_a@yahoo.com

 

Entry Deadline: 2008 contest is now closed.
                           Information on the 2009 contest will be available 0ctober 1st.

 

 

Congratulations to the 2008 first place winner. Click here to read essay (pdf file)

The 1st place essay “Polyethylene Terephthalate: Friend or Foe?”

by Jesse Smith of Ontario High School

 

2nd place Plastic a Benefit or a Detriment 
by Zachariah Rivera, Ontario High School, Ontario

3rd place Nylon: The Synthetic Fabric
by Jose Jimenez, Ontario High School, Ontario

 

TOP TEN LIST also includes the following:

Student                           High School

Felipe Camacho             Ontario                           

Yozabeth Montoya         John W. North               

Ruben Alaniz                  Ontario                           

Cesar Raygoza               Ontario                          

Nick Lawler                      Rancho Cucamonga               

Phuong Nguyen              Ontario                          

Christine Marcelle          Ontario                           

Honorable Mentions

Omar Honegger              Don Bosco Tech.           

Sharlena Singelton        Pomona Catholic           

This year 153 students submitted entries from the following 5 high schools:

Don Bosco Tech.  Rosemead, CA

J.W. North   Riverside, CA

Ontario Ontario, CA

Pomona Catholic, Pomona, CA

Rancho Cucamonga, Rancho Cucamonga, CA